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Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 26 June 2003 From: New York  |
16 April 2008 - 20:14
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From K1Bond007 on the CBn main page...
— U P D A T E —    ~ Nobody Knows Me Like You Know Me ~ 'People Look Up. Things Fall Down. And When It Rains, It Pours' Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other ♦ D of the CBn Four CommanderBond.net - Where All Other James Bond Sites End... This One Begins Are You Ready To Go? |
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Commander GCMG Group: Veterans Reserve Enlisted: 5 June 2001 From: Lagrimas Negras |
16 April 2008 - 22:26
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Very cool. Will a Bond book make the list, I wonder? (Yeah, I know, it won't.)
 "Fandom is where people come together and complain about what they like." Visit The Young Bond Dossier, now the OFFICIAL site for Young Bond news |
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Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 26 June 2003 From: New York |
17 April 2008 - 03:02
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QUOTE(zencat @ 16 April 2008 - 18:26)  Very cool. Will a Bond book make the list, I wonder? (Yeah, I know, it won't.) Are you kidding me?!? What's not winning about a naked girl with a broken nose and a knife on a beach? 
~ Nobody Knows Me Like You Know Me ~ 'People Look Up. Things Fall Down. And When It Rains, It Pours' Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other ♦ D of the CBn Four CommanderBond.net - Where All Other James Bond Sites End... This One Begins Are You Ready To Go? |
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Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 20 January 2005 From: Illinois |
17 April 2008 - 06:50
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QUOTE(zencat @ 16 April 2008 - 17:26) Very cool. Will a Bond book make the list, I wonder? (Yeah, I know, it won't.) I'm actually expecting one to make it, if only at the end of the list. I'd bet on Casino Royale, though the safe bet is probably From Russia with Love. Whether it truly influenced him as a writer is questionable. Probably not, but I can see why he would probably throw one on there.  |
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Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 2 August 2001 From: Oxfordshire |
17 April 2008 - 07:19
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I expect there will be one, for marketing purposes.
I've put my mortgage on it being High Time to Kill. Fingers crossed!  "There was a violent cruelty, a pathological desire to wound, quite near the surface in the man." CBn: So blinded by inconsolable rage that we don't care who we hurt Only James Bond is James Bond. |
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Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 29 June 2004 From: Germany |
17 April 2008 - 08:22
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QUOTE(Jim @ 17 April 2008 - 09:19) I expect there will be one, for marketing purposes. I've put my mortgage on it being High Time to Kill. Fingers crossed! Are you serious? Because if you are I suggest you take another mortgage and put it on this three-legged racing horse that is bound to win with fantastic odds at Newmarket's James-Guineas-Festival. Name of 'Lurchin' Old Nag'. This post has been edited by Trident: 17 April 2008 - 08:40 "Its better to travel hopefully than to arrive."
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Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 2 August 2001 From: Oxfordshire |
17 April 2008 - 08:28
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QUOTE(Trident @ 17 April 2008 - 09:22) QUOTE(Jim @ 17 April 2008 - 09:19) I expect there will be one, for marketing purposes. I've put my mortgage on it being High Time to Kill. Fingers crossed! Are you serious? Because if you are I suggest you take another mortgage and put it on this tree-legged racing horse that is bound to win with fantastic odds at Newmarket's James-Guineas-Festival. Name of 'Lurchin' Old Nag'. Oh, all right. Never Dream of Dying it is. "There was a violent cruelty, a pathological desire to wound, quite near the surface in the man." CBn: So blinded by inconsolable rage that we don't care who we hurt Only James Bond is James Bond. |
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Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 8 October 2001 From: 38.6902N - 89.9816W |
1 May 2008 - 19:02
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 Somewhere early morning in a hotel room there’s a guy starting to realise that eternal fate has turned its back on him. It’s 2 a.m. |
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Commander GCMG Group: Veterans Reserve Enlisted: 5 June 2001 From: Lagrimas Negras |
1 May 2008 - 19:31
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Wow.
I'm pleased to see Fleming make the list, but surprised to see Moonraker. But it is a great book. "Fandom is where people come together and complain about what they like." Visit The Young Bond Dossier, now the OFFICIAL site for Young Bond news |
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Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 20 January 2005 From: Illinois |
1 May 2008 - 19:43
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It's one of my favorites, but I'm surprised as well.
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Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 8 October 2001 From: 38.6902N - 89.9816W |
1 May 2008 - 20:09
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The World is not Enough?
Somewhere early morning in a hotel room there’s a guy starting to realise that eternal fate has turned its back on him. It’s 2 a.m. |
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Commander CMG Group: Veterans Enlisted: 13 May 2002 |
1 May 2008 - 21:17
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Pleased to see one of my all-time favourites, THE MAGUS, on the list. A lot of the titles mean nothing to me, though - fault doubtless mine. The most recent book I'm noticing is THE LINE OF BEAUTY, which I'm reading at the moment. Extremely well-written, but a bit overrated IMO.
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Lt. Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 2 May 2007 |
1 May 2008 - 22:53
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QUOTE(Mister Asterix @ 1 May 2008 - 22:09) The World is not Enough? Yes, but by Zoe Oldenbourg, not Raymond Benson! Gosh, Mr. *, you almost made me have a stroke when I read your post before seeing the actual list  About Moonraker, it's a close second in my list, just after (ex aequo ?) Dr. No, for almost the same reasons as those described by Faulks. "Never will we find the truth if we content ourselves with what is already known." (GoT) |
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